Yeah, I see what you mean, that would be handy for pasting blocks of text in without the IDE mangling it. I see your point.
Ron wrote: > Stephen Bungay wrote: >> I made up a standard comment block a long time ago as a text file, I >> simply paste it in and modify/add to it as needed. Yes you have to put >> the ' at the start of every new comment line, but IMHO that is no big deal. >> >> Steve. >> >> > > Yeah but the the damage is already done then. > What I was trying to explain was, if you paste a text like this into the > editor: > > --- > This is some text with debug information > and is just used to explain my point. > And there should be a bunch more lines below this one with preserved > words in them. > --- > > It becomes this, even before you have a chance to comment it: > > --- > This IS some text WITH DEBUG information > AND IS just used TO explain my point. > AND there should be a bunch more lines below this one WITH preserved > words IN them. > --- > > Even if you arrange enough blank lines with a ' in front before you > paste it over them. You get this: > > --- > 'This is some text with debug information > AND IS just used TO explain my point. > AND there should be a bunch more lines below this one WITH preserved > words IN them. > ' > ' > --- > > That wouldn't be the case if you can put an /* > and */ and can paste between those. > Can't explain it any more clearer than this. > > Too bad it's a lot of work to implement. > > Regards, > Ron_2nd. >> Ron wrote: >> >>> But.. sometimes you want to paste some lines of text as comment into your >>> code. If you do this your way the text gets parsed/changed as soon as you >>> paste it. Before you get the change to mark it as comment.It would be nice >>> if you can type /* and */ and paste the stuff between it so the editor >>> leaves it untouched. That's my reason for having a more clever way of >>> marking a comment block. >>> Regards, >>> Ron_2nd. >>> >>> --- >>> this e-mail is sent with my android phone. >>> >>> >>>> Highlight the block of code you want to comment out.... then click > the >>>> >>> little comment icon i... >>> Yes but no: many times I have to comment/decomment many parts of a single >>> block, with C comment you can see where you are instantly otherwise you >>> must re-read each line. >>> >>> But thanks anyway :) >>> >>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
